FOLLOWING up on John Jay Park, 33 blocks to the north on the East River shoreline is another park named after a Founding Father, carved out of the street grid…

I have yet to do a definitive walk on Riverside Drive, though in 2012 a Forgotten NY tour marched from 72nd north to 125th, a trip that took us a…

YOU don’t see a lot of lengthy inscriptions in Dutch in NYC. There are street names, or perhaps slogans on borough flags (Brooklyn’s is “Eendracht maakt macht,” which translates to…

TAKE a walk south on East 15th Street from Gravesend Neck Road and opposite #2305 East 15th, freestanding house, you’ll see a group of 3-story multifamily buildings with balconies and…

CANAL Street is among the noisiest streets in New York City because it’s a major truck route. In the 1960s, NYC traffic czar Robert Moses was thwarted in his attempt…

MANHATTAN boasts a Manhattan Avenue on the Upper West Side, which runs from West 100th Street one block west of Central Park West north past Morningside Park to West 124th…

In contrast to the Upper West Side, which has a continuous waterfront park on the Hudson River stretching from 59th to 125th Streets, the shoreline of the Upper East Side…

MARKETFIELD Street is one of the city’s few L-shaped routes, proceeding from Broad Street opposite #75 and then doglegging west and north to Beaver and New Streets. Nothing to write home…

BROADWAY and East 18th are on the edge of yet another Landmarked District, the large Ladies’ Mile Historic District, which roughly runs between East 17th and 24th Streets, and midblock between…

YOU may think the engineer of the Grand Concourse would be remembered by more than a very short street connecting the Grand Concourse and Mosholu Parkway. The Grand Concourse runs up the…

JAMAICA Estates, built on the northern edge of the former Town of Jamaica in the 1905-1907 period, occupies about 500 acres between Homelawn Street, Hillside Avenue, 188th Street and Union…

YEARS beyond comprehension ago … perhaps 1998 or 1999 … I photographed this broken down street clock on the east side of Sutphin Boulevard south of Jamaica Avenue. At the…